Former President Harry Truman as a civil rights advocate because it was the right—not politically expedient—position for America after World War II. He initially supported civil rights because he was repulsed by the treatment... Read More

If you’d asked me a week ago, / I’d have said no, I wouldn’t love someone who’d had a sex change. / But that was a week ago, and today I’m feeling gutsy. Most of the poems in this first collection are gutsy. They are sexual and... Read More

These are violent times. Even before the terrorists and war, some teens were so drenched in the culture of mayhem they thought it made sense to open fire on their classmates. The author, who was a psychiatric clinical specialist at New... Read More

For anyone who has had chicken pox, the potential for shingles is lurking inside you. Mary-Ellen Siegel, an instructor at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and Gray Williams Jr. (The Fight Against Pain, The TMJ Book) explain the virus... Read More